Couple of things re FC4 & yum

[Paul Howarth]

Gene Heskett wrote:

(please don't Cc: me on mail posted to the list; I only need to read it 
once)

> On Monday 11 July 2005 11:24, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>This machine is a bit odd in that its actual boot partition isn't
>>>even mounted by FC4.  Somehow, in rigging it for dual booting of
>>>FC4 and emc's bdi, its now booting from (hd1,0) instead of
>>>(hd0,0), so that when a new kernel is installed as was the case
>>>this morning, I have to hand modify the /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst
>>>and copy all the new stuffs from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1, which
>>>when its booted to FC4, can be hand mounted as /mnt/bdi-boot. 
>>>/dev/hda1 is mounted by FC4 as /boot, but thats not where it boots
>>>from.
>>
>>I'd suggest adding an entry:
>>
>>title Fedora Core 4
>>        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>>        chainloader +1
>>
>>to /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst
>>
>>You should then be able to pick FC4 from the OS's boot menu, and
>>never have to fiddle with grub entries again.
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> What would this do to the grub choice of boots menu?

Your second OS has installed a new copy of grub in the MBR. The idea to 
to add an entry to that OS's grub config to chain-load the FC4 grub, in 
much the same way that systems dual-booting Windows chain-load the 
Windows bootloader.

> And shouldn't 
> that be (hd0,0) which is the 'other' /boot partition that FC4 would 
> normally use if somehow grub hadn't been pointed at hdb?

Yes, it should. You're right.

> Currently I have it set (on hdb) for a default that is the newest FC4 
> kernel and its running.  But as of this mornings reboot after a power 
> failure, its without a kicker, and a dead rhn-applet (whatever that 
> is, explain please) from the date of the first yum update after the 
> install.  e2fsck didn't complain about an unclean shutdown either, 
> which seems odd to say the least.

rhn-applet is broken in FC4.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873

Paul.